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338 Belonging quotes by 276 unique authors

Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you. — Janet Morris
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere. — Matt Chandler
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived… — BrenÃ© Brown
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — Elwyn Brooks White
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… — George Eliot
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my… — Walker Percy
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. — William Hazlitt
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights,… — Dick Gregory
... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself. — Henri Bergson
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European… — Claude Levi-Strauss
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being… — Jim Parsons
The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New… — Howard Stringer
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions… — Thomas Young
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. — Geoffrey Beene
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes. — Phoebe Stone
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity.… — John O'Donohue
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face your… — John O'Donohue
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, /… — John O'Donohue
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the… — Marva Dawn
Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of… — Thomas Szasz

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